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Lot 215
Prasanta Sahu
(1968)

People on street behind a bullet painted foreground



Commingling pictures and text, Sahu borrows motifs from the mass media. The black and white photographic images adopt a documentary style of address, presenting a snippet of everyday reality, such as we would be likely to find in a newspaper or magazine clipping. Yet, in Sahu's oeuvre, this process of citation operates on multiple levels.

The artist is intensely aware of the pictorial surface of the canvas. Monochromatic pictures...



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  Lot 215 of 218  

AUCTION 2001 (DECEMBER)
6-12 DECEMBER 2001

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Prasanta Sahu
People on street behind a bullet painted foreground

2001
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 in (152.4 x 182.9 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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